From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b307bd75c8071241 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: newbie Q: storage management Date: 1997/05/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 241165919 Distribution: world References: <5l1sva$a8g@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5l1sva$a8g@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes: > bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes: > > >Perhaps somebody has time to get some existing conservative GC to work > >with GNAT, which might be easy if it already works with gcc. Perhaps > >Hans Boehm's GC (I *think* it's freely available, and I *think* it works > >with gcc -- I could be wrong on both counts). > > Hans Boehm's GC is indeed freely available and it does indeed work fine > with gcc. Yup. > However, getting it to work in the presence of tasking may require > quite a bit of work. The Boehm collector does apparently have some > support for multithreading on some systems, but I have never used > that aspect of it. Bingo. But as I've pointed out that is only part of the issue. There are many others. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com